A man is arrested for stealing 1,200 young birch trees from public land in northeast Minnesota to sell to the growing market in decorative birch poles. 

The population of the United States hits 325 million.

The business plan of Australian oil-and-gas giant Santos assumes an increase in worldwide temperatures of 7.2°F—what climate scientists call a “worst-case scenario.”

A Republican effort to roll back Obama-era regulations restricting the flaring of methane from natural gas wells fails when three GOP senators join Democrats in opposing it. The Interior Department says it intends to “suspend, revise, or rescind” the regulations anyway. 

Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy, completes his prison term in connection with the deaths of 29 coal miners in Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. He served one year. 

The city of Chicago’s website reposts information on climate change that Trump’s EPA scrubbed from its own site last week. 

A 20-foot portion of a tunnel used to store radioactive materials collapses at the Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear site in Washington State. Cleanup at the site, which once produced plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, has been ongoing since 1989. 

Denmark has a wolf pack for the first time in 200 years. 

An Abu Dhabi–based firm plans to tow icebergs from Antarctica to provide the United Arab Emirates with drinking water.

The EPA dismisses 12 scientists from its Board of Scientific Counselors to make way for representatives from the industries that the EPA regulates. 

The 600-megawatt Gemini Wind Park, the world’s second-largest offshore wind farm, opens in the North Sea. When fully operational, it will supply the energy needs of 785,000 Dutch households. 

Biosecurity officers in Australia incinerate an irreplaceable collection of rare flowering plants sent by the Museum of Natural History in Paris to Queensland's herbarium in Brisbane.